As we read further the singularly primitive and barbarous ritual of the service of knightly reception in the twelfth century, one is persuaded that the words exhale a German odor, and have nothing Roman about them.

The queen of flowers here appeared under every variety of colour, size, and speciesred, white, black, and yellowbudding, full-blown, and half-blown;some with thorns, and some without; some odourless, and others exhaling their unrivalled perfume with an overpowering sweetness.

The grass exhaled an odour of summer; flies buzzed in the air, the sun shone on the river and warmed the slated roof.

But never door or window broke the face of any building, no chimney exhaled a breath of smoke, neither wheel nor foot disturbed these grass-grown thoroughfares....

After a few moments the prisoner began to distinguish objects confusedly, and this is what he found: White-washed walls here and there turned green by various exhalations; in one corner a round hole guarded by iron bars, and exhaling a disgusting smell; in another corner a slab turning upon a hinge like the bracket seat of a fiacre, and thus capable of being used as a table; no bed; a straw-bottomed chair; under foot a brick floor.

" "But II meanwhere is your home?" "My home," said Bellew, exhaling a great cloud of smoke, "my home lies beyond the 'bounding billow.

He put it to his nose,it exhaled the fragrance of honey.

And yet, despite its poverty, the place exhaled an air of homely if rather ascetic comfort, and the taste was irreproachable.

They retain the hydrogen and the carbon, exhale the superfluous oxygen, and absorb little or no nitrogen.

At the slightest breath whenever he spoke, he exhaled from his mouth a vapor of alcohol.

Moffatt himself, as he came forward, gave Ralph the impression of having been done over by the same hand: he was smoother, broader, more supremely tailored, and his whole person exhaled the faintest whiff of an expensive scent.

In approaching the town, you ascend in every direction, except from Halesowen; on which account the air has free access to every part of it, and the sun can exercise its full powers in exhaling superfluous moisture.

We lay together and looked up into the far high sky, we breathed lightly: it seemed we exhaled the scent of flowers that we had inbreathed in the morningwe slept.

The dew upon the hyacinth and narcissus is converted into tears: they exhale sighs, instead of fragrance.

She knew little intimate anecdotes of the poets and painters they loved, piquant gossip and brilliant mots; and then she was one of those women who are like incense in a room, enriching by her very presence, exhaling mystery and distinction, like a pomander of strange spices.

The equatorial sun, with its fiercest rays, cannot penetrate these dark recesses; it only exhales from them pestilential vapours, which render this coast the theatre of more fatal epidemic diseases than any other, even of Western Africa.

And one delicious morning in early June, when the dew sparkled on the poison ivy and the air was vibrant with the soft monotone of mosquitoes and the public road exhaled a delicate aroma of crude oil, Drusilla and Flavilla, laden with sketching-blocks, color-boxes, camp-stools, white umbrellas and bonbons, descended to the great hall, on sketching bent.

His breath sounded as if he could inhale and exhale the room's entire atmosphere.

"When I went," the narrator adds, "to examine the coast, although it was high-water, I found the ancient bed of the sea laid bare, and dry, with beds of oysters, mussels, and other shells adhering to the rocks on which they grew, the fish being all dead, and exhaling most offensive effluvia.

It angered Lamar, remembering how the creamy whiteness of the full-blown flower exhaled passion of which the crimsonest rose knew nothing,a content, ecstasy, in animal life.

Arthur exhaled the past and inhaled it again.

UPAS TREE, a poison-yielding-tree, at one time fabled to exhale such poison that it was destructive to all animal and vegetable life for miles round it.

Her shawl, and particularly her crackling dress, exhaled the protest that burned within her like a pain.

"Unless somebody on the crew has done the blowing," suggested Roll, exhaling a great puff of smoke.

" That breath had scarce ceased, and the unhappy mother, the unhappy father, had already sprung forward, kissing those lips that exhaled the final quiver of life, and sobbing and crying their distress aloud.